David Hingtgen

Pic is taken a bit "from above" and lighting was actually TOO white (should have toned down the flash) but anyways-----Octane's alternate shoulder position, plus random "Asuka wearing Rei's plugsuit because it looks cool":

How is it pilot error? Nothing I've read indicates that. If anything it was "bad procedures".

Same here----Targets around here now have ONE peg for carded figures, if that. (not one peg full---one peg AVAILABLE and tagged with a price/label) (Still flooded with old comic two-packs though). I think the "way too many" old comic packs are making them decide to stop carrying the whole line. Nobody, I mean nobody, wants "bright blue CC with flourescent yellow stripes".

Animated Grimlock has the best eye light-piping ever.

Like F-14's? Like funny stories? Then you can spend HOURS reading the Hoser chronicles: http://www.tomcat-sunset.org/forums/index.php?topic=2441.0

...still waiting for a new figure that I recognize. Honestly, I want more video game ones than anime. Street Fighter's still not out (and I want a Cammy and Vega), where's the Soul Calibur and Tekken stuff? The line's half Namco-Bandai anyways.

Found Grimlock everywhere I went today, strangely enough. Anyways---much quicker/easier fix for the "arm won't slide all the way in" issue----just loosen the screw a bit.

Scale is everything to me. Plus---things shouldn't all be the same size! I mean, what if you had a Roy (the character, not the valk) and Mylene figure side-by-side---and they were the same size? Giant Mylene. Or tiny Roy. You'd probably want them to be the same SCALE, as Mylene SHOULD be a lot smaller than Roy. Making her bigger by adjusting her scale to "fit in" just looks weird. Same with valks--a VF-1 should be smaller. Because it is smaller! Making it bigger to match the others is the same as making Mylene (or Ranka) bigger to match with Roy (or Ozma).

That's hard to answer. Do you have Texmod? If not, it's even harder to explain. As it is--you cannot dig through ME's files and find a file that is the texture for anything. It's not made that way. What the armor mods really are, are more like "interrupts" to the PC's own RAM while the game is playing---so that it looks for the altered texture, instead of reading it from the game's files.

Red with grey? Kinda bland, but I'll try it when I get it. (or more likely, learn to use the cheat console to acquire it, otherwise it'll be quite a while). I use GIMP for image editing, as it's free. I know several ways to swap colors with GIMP, and one always works for ME armor so far. PS--light, medium, or heavy Colossus? Also--I always mod female armor, as I tend to have FemShep more often, plus Liara and/or Ashley in the party.

Play from hard drive?!?!?!? Hmmmn. That's a bunch of console sales for MS. I suspect many people will be in my situation: 20GB HDD, "dying" disc drive (and/or noisy). Putting the games on HDD will save a lot of wear and tear on the drive, maybe adding years to its life. But will need a much bigger HDD to hold all our fave games, thus needing to buy either the new 60GB or Elite model---or just the new HDD. Question--is it going to be newly-developed games only? I kinda doubt (but hope) it'll allow older games to be put on the HDD. coughMASSEFFECTcough

Repair is quick--shields are not. It's been so long since I had Tali in the party, maybe she affects shield regeneration rate on the Mako too, not just amount of shielding.

The Mako was going to be upgradeable---that feature was cut. As for the re-load to repair shields: I use that just to save time. Why wait literally 5 mins to heal, when you can just save and re-load so much faster? I mean, you can't do it while under threat of attack or while being attacked, so it's not "cheating" at all---it just reduces the amount of time you sit there and state at the SLOW regeneration of shields. It wouldn't be bad if 60 or 90 secs restored shields, but it takes MINUTES of sitting there when fully drained.

Texmod is the program used to actually override the textures in the game. It's very simple to use--it's basically a launcher for ME's .exe file, but it can override any texture with one of your choosing. Now, I can CHANGE colors very well, as well as lighten/darken/brighten. But don't ask me to alter the shininess--that's way beyond my ability to adjust layer specular highlighting and glow, etc. (The ME models are actually inherently glowing blue, with a transparent texture of pure shine over that, all wrapped in an armor texture with transparent layers of armor to selectively allow certain parts to glow or shine) I can totally remove all shine I think though--haven't actually tried.

That's it! Thanks so much.

Linky no worky.

That'll do, but I was thinking of a picture of the actual valk in fighter mode.

VF1TF better start paying more attention to how bands spell their names. That double-E has been missed TWICE now. MonkEEs and Beatles, not Monkeys and BEEtles.

Someone already has: http://masseffect.bioware.com/forums/myvie...1&forum=125 (Female Heavy Colossus, at least) But seriously--once I get it, I could recolor it.

GE partnered with RR for the F136's lift-fan, another reason why it's probably doing better...

Cartoon-colors Flint is VERY high on my want-list. (Along with ACTUAL toon-colors v2 Roadblock and movie-colors Falcon)

I *know* I've seen a really good overhead view of Ozma's valk showing the skull marking well (one of the few times we've seen his without armor) but I can't remember when--or if it was actually a model or toy sample rather than a scene in an episode. Anyone have a pic?

Re: Mods. We'll probably have to wait until more people get it working before we get some serious mods. (also, we really need more UT3 engine mod/editors to be able to work on ME) I've done a few armor recolors. (I take requests) It's also very easy to replace Shepard's model with just about any other character from the game. (yeah, I'm playing through as Liara at the moment) Changing henchmen's appearance and NPC's can't be done yet. (just about everyone wants Liara to look like Shiala from Feros--including me)

Probably not, unless you're such a huge fan that you think mods etc make it worth playing again.

I thought he lost three valks already...